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Old 04-15-2005, 01:54 AM   #1
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Distro to use?


Hi all.

I'm currently using Redhat 9.0 as an authentication server and webserver. I'm doing updates from The fedora-legacy project(http://www.fedoralegacy.org).

What I want to ask is: From a security standpoint is it better to move to a distro where more development is being done? Such as Ubuntu or CentOs.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Old 04-15-2005, 02:51 AM   #2
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At some point the updates are going to be discontinued, so you will have to migrate anyway. I would choose something like CentOS because you are guaranteed to get security updates for around 5 years.
 
Old 04-15-2005, 11:02 AM   #3
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Thanks for your reply.

I'll be looking into CentOS

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Old 04-15-2005, 11:33 AM   #4
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Another distro that I came across that seems to be pretty good and based on RHEL is whitebox

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